October 13, 2013

Study: Anti-bullying Programs Increase Bullying

Well, bully for anti-bullying programs. After spending countless
millions instituting them nationwide, a university study has concluded
that it isn’t just that they don’t work.

They actually increase bullying.

The head researcher of the study, University of Texas at Arlington
criminologist Seokjin Jeong, did not start out as a critic of
anti-bullying programs, mind you; on the contrary, he expected to find
that they’d mitigated the nation’s bullying problem. Much to his dismay,
however, he learned that students in schools boasting anti-bullying
programs were more likely to be bullied than those attending schools
without such programs. CBSLocal.com reports on his explanations for the
findings, writing:

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Well, bully for anti-bullying programs. After spending countless
millions instituting them nationwide, a university study has concluded
that it isn’t just that they don’t work.

They actually increase bullying.

The head researcher of the study, University of Texas at Arlington
criminologist Seokjin Jeong, did not start out as a critic of
anti-bullying programs, mind you; on the contrary, he expected to find
that they’d mitigated the nation’s bullying problem. Much to his dismay,
however, he learned that students in schools boasting anti-bullying
programs were more likely to be bullied than those attending schools
without such programs. CBSLocal.com reports on his explanations for the
findings, writing: